The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-04-23
MINING NEWS.

aIlaIIb 10 having visible oUecC uDol
business. The opening of tn
season is backward, the cold an,
uncomfortable weather of late NOR
properly expected in early Marcl
than the close of April. Col,
nights and clustering days retar,
the melting of the snow along tn
mountain highways, and a warn
rain is anxiously awaited to clea
the roads of their winter barrier
A general feeling prevails that tn,
season of 1887 will be one of NOR,
general prosperity than has beer
enjoyed here for several years. No
only are the larger and more ex
tensively worked mines making 8
fine showing, but the innumerabl<
smaller claims, in all the various
stages of development, will produce
ore, which, taken in the aggregate
will swell the amount mined durinp
the winter to no inconsiderable pro.
portion. As soon as teaming can
be resumed, and the dumps cleared
of the results of the winter work,
there will be large amount of ore
finding its way to town seeking a
market. Nearly every mine on
Boyle mountain that has been
worked during the winter has a
greater or less amount of ore wait
ing shipment. No word has been
received from the Ophir mine, on
Boulder mountain for some weeks,
and what success attended the run
ming of the new tunnel is still un-
known. The reports from Smoky
district still continue to be of the
most favorable nature, and the
miners there anxious for the snow
to go away, SO that work can be
carried on upon larger scale. The
completion of the road from the
summit to the various mines there
is also anxiously awaited, now that
its construction seems to be an
assured fact. Ketchum is in great
favor among the miners there, and
a continuous road between the
two places will prove of great bene-
fit, its distance being so much
shorter in this direction than any
other, in order to reach speedy
communication with the outside
world.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.
L. c. Trent, the general western
manager of Fraser & Chalmers,
during the most of last week was
in assisting in the expert
ments being made at the smelling
works of the Philadelphia and Ida
no Company in the concentration
Of ores from the Silver Star mine,
of Smoky district. The object of
these experiments was for the pur-
pose Of determining what character
of works would be best adapted for
the successful treatment of the
large bodies of low grade ores found
in the Silver Star mine. The re-
suits obtained in this experimental
work were gratifying, demonstrate
ing the fact that the mode adopted
would prove a successful one in
he treatment of this particular
class of ore. In order to make the
experiments q five-stamp crusher
vas erected and two of the latest
True Vanning machines
'et up.
PRIDE OF IDAHO.
James w. Dawson, owner'of the
Pride of Idaho mine, on East Fork,
has recently struck a fine body of
IRE. The discovery was made
While sinking a shaft in tunnel No.
J, and the vein is about four feet in
width, all mineral and lying be-
ween we'll defined walls. This
,ody of ore is found in the deepest
of the mine. The assays
made of the ore show it to be ex-
rich. Mr.. Dawson pro-
roses to extend tunnel No. 3 a dis
ance of about fifty feet, when he
anticipates striking the ore shoot
n tunnel No. 5. This will give 1875
eet of stopping ground between the
wo tunnels. The Pride of Idaho
'romises we'll, and no one is more
deserving of success than its per-
istent and hard working owner.
MINING NOTES.
David Hewett, miner employed
n the Minnie Moore mine, at
'roadford, was severely injured on
asst Monday by being caught in a
ave while working on the 6DO-foot
svel. Il,
st. Louis parties have purchased /
he Nay Aug mine, on Deer creek. !
ohm b. Winters managed the sale !
nd is TO be superintendent. i
Matthew Graham, one of the pi- :
neers of Idaho, is expected to ar ,
i've in New York shortly from !
liverpool, where he has effected a {
lrge sale of Idaho mining property {
, a party of capitalists. e
The leasers of the Sunday, Go
her and Ontario mines on Boyle
are diligently at work, 9